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• I'm always trying to bring unusual content to a different audience - a non-art-world audience.

  Jenny Holzer

  Art, Different, World

  Wired Interview, www.wired.com. February 01, 1994.

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• I have superfine, superoily hair, so my struggle is always trying to get the volume I want. I end up not doing much with it ever.

  Odette Annable

  Struggle, Hair, Want

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• The warrior is always trying to improve.

  Paulo Coelho

  Life, Inspiration, Warrior

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• When I've done gymnastics, ballet or soccer - I was always trying to be the best. I'm really driven. Really driven.

  Chloe Grace Moretz

  Soccer, Gymnastics, Ballet

  "Chloë Moretz: 'I'm not cussing and killing people - I'm normal'". Interview With Cath Clarke, www.theguardian.com. December 1, 2011.

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• I think as an actor you're always learning, you're always trying to experience more things.

  Matthew Lewis

  Thinking, Actors, Always Learning

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If camping is so great, why are the bugs always trying to get in your house?

  Jim Gaffigan

  House, Camping, Bugs

  Jim Gaffigan (2013). “Dad Is Fat”, p.258, Crown Archetype

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• After black's reply to 1.e4 with 1..e5, leaves him always trying to get into the game

  Howard Staunton

  Games, Chess Game, Black

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• Ctors are always trying to cry and people are actually trying not to cry.

  Anthony Head

  People, Trying, Cry

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• I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Touching, Heartbreaking, Unconventional

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• What I'm always trying to do with every book is to recreate the effect of the stories we heard as children in front of campfires and fireplaces - the ghost stories that engaged us.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Children, Book, Ghost Stories

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• Like a good chess player, Satan is always trying to maneuver you into a position where you can save your castle only by losing your bishop.

  C. S. Lewis

  Player, Castles, Bishops

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• I think it pisses God off if you walk by the color purple in a field somewhere and don't notice it. People think pleasing God is all God cares about. But any fool living in the world can see it always trying to please us back.

  Alice Walker

  Thank You, Gratitude, Appreciation

  Alice Walker (1982). “El color púrpura”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home.

  Stephen King

  Falling In Love, Fear, Home

  Stephen King (2008). “The Stand”, p.454, Hachette UK

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• God is always trying to give good things to us, but our hands are too full to receive them.

  Saint Augustine

  Hands, Giving, Good Things

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• You're better equipped for this world than I am," she said. "I'm always trying to change the world. You know how to live in it.

  Tom Robbins

  World, Said, Trying To Change

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• Before, I was always trying to make my relationships work by means of willpower and forced affability. This time I didn't have to strive for anything. A quality of ease spread over us.

  Charles Baxter

  Mean, Quality, Ease

  "The Feast of Love: A Novel". Book by Charles Baxter, May 1, 2001.

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• homesickness is just a state of mind for me. i'm always missing someone or someplace or something, i'm always trying to get back to some imaginary somewhere. my life has been one long longing.

  Elizabeth Wurtzel

  Missing Someone, Long, Mind

  Elizabeth Wurtzel (2014). “Prozac Nation: Young and Depressed in America”, p.82, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I am always trying to put myself inside: Every dress I do, I think, 'If I were a woman, would I wear it?'

  Alber Elbaz

  Thinking, Dresses, Ifs

  Interview with Maximilian Rosenbluth, kmh.gallery. April 2, 2012.

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• I'm always attracted to people who interest me. They've got to be people who are really true to themselves somehow, and who are always trying to do something that makes their life more interesting, or better, or something for somebody else. They're interested in people.

  Vivienne Westwood

  People, Interesting, Really True

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• I am always trying to find fabrics that are more friendly to the environment - working with Virgin Atlantic, they managed to research into this and find more eco fabrics.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Friendly, Fabric, Research

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• What I'm always trying to say to the consumer is: buy less, choose well, make it last.

  Vivienne Westwood

  Lasts, Wells, Consumers

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• When I'm singing I'm always trying to get to the highest point possible. I'd fly to the top of Buckingham Palace to sing to the queen.

  Florence Welch

  Queens, Singing, Palaces

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• Because too many times in life there's just one person that I met, just one thing that I heard, one movie that I saw, one song that was sung, that changed my life. So I'm always trying to stay awake to be in the moment, and capture the moments when they come, because they come and go all the time.

  Mike Singletary

  Song, Saws, Moments

  "San Francisco coach Mike Singletary gets serious after the pants saga" by Paolo Bandini, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2010.

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• It's so disappointing, to put it mildly, that people know so much about my life. Because it means that they're always trying to look at my books in terms of my life.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Mean, People

  "'I have the hatred in a trunk in storage'". Interview with Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. August 29, 2005.

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• I view my strongest competition as myself. You're always trying to top yourself, rather than worrying about what other people are doing.

  John C. Reilly

  Views, People, Worry

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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